Risk factors of infective endocarditis in persons who inject drugs

• Main Authors: Meera Shah (Author), Ryan Wong (Author), Laura Ball (Author), Klajdi Puka (Author), Charlie Tan (Author), Esfandiar Shojaei (Author), Sharon Koivu (Author), Michael Silverman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The rising incidence of infective endocarditis (IE) among people who inject drugs (PWID) has been a major concern across North America. The coincident rise in IE and change of drug preference to hydromorphone controlled-release (CR) among our PWID population in London, Ontario in...